March 30, 2016

Do what it takes for your music to walk out of your head and into performance saying what it means.

Do we see/hear what is there, or only what we are? Is skewed perception OK if we believe what we write and manage to convince listeners?

March 25, 2016

It’s not so much work in the day-in, day-out sense; it’s involvement, engagement [can be applied to copying scores/parts by hand; performing one’s own work and others’; you name it].

March 8, 2016

Enduring low points and what’s-the-points in “working for the idea” [see Aphorisms in January, 2016] is to be expected.